Biographies: The Snapshot Approach
adapted from the work of Myra Zarnowski

Benjamin Banneker Web Sites
African American Scientists and Inventors: http://www.nynetresources.org/Future%20Grant%20Projects/Projects/aascientists/africanscientists.htm%00
Banneker's Farmer's Almanac: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbanneker.htm
Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/readex/24073.html
Banneker Center for Economic Justice: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p84.html
Maryland's African American Heritage: http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/banneker.html
Mathematicians of the African Diaspora: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/special/banneker-benjamin.html
PBS Series Africans in America: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p84.html
Surveying: http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/presrvce/pe3lk37a.htm
Understanding Primary Sources: http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/5/unit/act5.1.html

History Web Sites
Washington History Online (Washington State History Museum): http://www.washingtonhistoryonline.org/
Historylink.org: The online encyclopedia of Washington State history: http://www.historylink.org
The History Channel: http://www.historychannel.com/
PBS:  History's Best: http://www.pbs.org/history/
Library of Congress:  American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html
National Council for the Social Studies:  Internet Resources & Links: http://www.socialstudies.org/links/
Internet School Library Media Center: http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
K-12 History on the Internet Resource Guide: http://www.xs4all.nl/~swanson/history/chapter05.html

Biographies

Professional Books and Journal Articles
Zarnowski, M. (2003). History makers: A questioning approach to reading and writing biographies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Zarnowski, M. (September/October 2004). Biography from a variety of perspectives. Social Studies and the Young Learner. National Council for the Social Studies.
Bamford, R. & Kristo, J. (2003). Making facts come alive: Choosing and using quality nonfiction literature K-8. (2nd ed.). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.